Christian faith would be so much healthier if we didn't see our faith as a war to be won or people as enemies but as worlds to be explored and people to be loved.
03132 – Healthy Christian Faith
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03131 – Speaking Greatness Over Someone
If someone is falling behind in life, you don't have to remind them. Believe me, they already know. If someone is unhealthy, they know. If someone is failing at work, they know. If someone is struggling in their relationships with money, with self-image... they know....
03126 – Led by the Holy Spirit?
The moment we Christians feel justified abandoning love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control for the sake of preserving and enforcing our own power is the moment we find we are being led by something other than the...
03121 – A Part of Us
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
03108 – That Great Unending Story
In the wilderness of grief, God provides narrative manna — just enough shape and meaning to keep us walking — and sends the Comforter, who knits together the raveled soul and refuses to leave us orphaned. Sometimes the bereaved say they are looking for closure, but in...
03101 – Nationalism vs. Self-Sacrificial Love
Nationalism keeps telling us Christians to take up our swords and make nations "Christian" by any means necessary. Jesus keeps calling us Christians to take up our crosses and be like him, serving the world through grace, humility, compassion, and self-sacrificial...
03096 – Three Things
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. from In Blackwater Woods
03094 – Sounding Like Christianity
Christianity should sound like, "my beliefs continue to deepen my love for others," not "the depth of my love for others is contingent on how deeply they conform to my beliefs."
03072 – Justice & Love
Justice is what love looks like in public.
03069 – Make the Most of Your Days
Time is a non-renewable resource. There is only a finite amount and we can't get it back. So make the most of the days you're given. Live fully. Laugh often. Love deeply.